Woven necktie



Patented Nov. 10, 1942 WOVEN NECKTIE Margaret Hope Diehl and Rutherford Oliver Diehl, Washington, D. C.

Application November 3, 1941, Serial No. 417,724

2 Claims.

This invention aims to provide a single layer, woven necktie, in which sections of some of the warp threads are removed, the remaining sections being extended laterally and interwoven with other warp threads, to the end that the terminal portions of the tie will be wider than the intermediate portion of the tie, the tie being tapered from its end portions to its intermediate portion. The invention aims, moreover, to provide a woven tie which will come from the loom as a nished article, requiring neither cutting nor trimming, no lining being required, and it being unnecessary to stretch any of warp threads, to bring about the aforesaid tapering, or to narrow the intermediate portion, all of the warp threads being under the same tension.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the `scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 shows in elevation, a tie constructed in accordance with the invention, and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged, diagrammatic elevation of a section of the fabric.

The necktie forming the subject matter of this application is made up of interwoven warp threads I and woef threads 2, the necktie comprising end members 3, an intermediate portion 4, and parts 5 connecting the intermediate portion with the end members. Sections of some of the warp threads marked by the numeral 6, are removed to narrow the intermediate portion and to taper the connecting parts 5,

The shortened warp threads 6 are distributed evenly on opposite sides of the median longitudinal axis A-B of the tie.

The shortened warp threads 6 have lateral extensions 1 which are interwoven with other warp threads. 'Ihe extensions'l are formed by cutting oi the warp threads of which they are a part, the extensions being carried laterally, approximately parallel to the woof threads 2, and being interwoven with other warp threads, as hereinbefore mentioned. The extensions 1 of the shortenedwarp threads 6 project alternately in opposite directions. The extensions 'l are of approximately the same length, and are terminated in spaced relation to the outer longitudinal edges of the tie.

Although not limited to such a method ofy manufacture, the tie is one which can be constructed advantageously by high class craft weaving, no elaborate machinery being required.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A single-layer necktie comprising end members, a narrowed intermediate portion, and tapered parts connecting the end members with the intermediate portion, the tie being made up of interwoven warp and woof threads, some of the warp threads being severed, within the tapered parts, and sections of the severed warp threads being removed, the portions of the severed warp threads that remain in the tie, and extend into the respective tapered parts, being of progressively increasing lengths, and having extensions prolonged laterally toward the outer,

longitudinal edges of the tie and interwoven with adjoining warp threads.

2. A single-layer necktie, constructed as set forth in claim 1, and wherein the extensions project alternately in opposite directions and terminate in spaced relation to the outer longitudinal edges of the tie.

IVIARGARET HOPE DIEHL. RUTHERFORD OLIVER DIEHL` 

